In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, ...

But after LSD spread into the larger culture, the U.S. government imposed strict restrictions on it (Dyck, 2008). By 1966, it ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order fast-tracking psychedelic drug research after a text exchange with Joe Rogan ...

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a ...

An executive order aims to speed up how quickly psychedelic drugs for mental illness can move through the regulatory process.

Albert Hoffman, the chemist who first synthesized LSD, as photographed in 1976 Noldi Köng / RDB / ullstein bild via Getty Images When chemist Albert Hofmann moved to small, straight-laced Basel, ...

A new executive order could make it easier for researchers studying how psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, LSD and ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the FDA to perform priority reviews of psychedelic drugs as part of a push to clear ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It's always been a bit of a mystery why LSD is such a potent hallucinogen. Unlike most similar drugs, it takes only a ...

In large doses, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) can repair damaged neurons in the brain, and reveal new ways of seeing the world. In small doses, microdosers chase the effects of the drug on ...

Novelist T.C. Boyle focuses on real-life figures with cult-like followings — he's written fiction about cornflakes king John Harvey Kellogg, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and sex researcher Alfred ...

May didn’t notice much with the first dose of LSD. She felt good, and she got a lot accomplished, and that was all. It was the day after that things really clicked. She felt even better, and she got a ...